Bonefish Jack -
Don't have any recent experience on the South Fork and its brookies but during the late 1950s, 1960s and much of the 1970s I caught a lot of trout from the South Fork including some brookies. For much of the South Fork the dominate fish were coastal cutthroat with west slopes common the very upper reaches. While the brook trout were never very numerous the seem to be two areas that consistently produced them. The bandera area where the source seemed to be beaver ponds/spring areas along the river and Boxley (Christmas) Creek which had spawning populations of brookies and cutthroat.
I spend most of time fishing the river downstream of the lower Tinkham road but would still catch a brook or two every year. The furthest downstream I every caught one was below North Bend (about a mile or so above its confluence). I always that the those downstream fish had dropped downstream to find additional rearing opportunities. On the average those down river fish were larger than those found in the headwaters or side tribs.
Curt
Don't have any recent experience on the South Fork and its brookies but during the late 1950s, 1960s and much of the 1970s I caught a lot of trout from the South Fork including some brookies. For much of the South Fork the dominate fish were coastal cutthroat with west slopes common the very upper reaches. While the brook trout were never very numerous the seem to be two areas that consistently produced them. The bandera area where the source seemed to be beaver ponds/spring areas along the river and Boxley (Christmas) Creek which had spawning populations of brookies and cutthroat.
I spend most of time fishing the river downstream of the lower Tinkham road but would still catch a brook or two every year. The furthest downstream I every caught one was below North Bend (about a mile or so above its confluence). I always that the those downstream fish had dropped downstream to find additional rearing opportunities. On the average those down river fish were larger than those found in the headwaters or side tribs.
Curt
